AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X vs Intel Core Ultra 5 245K

Ryzen Threadripper 3960X vs Core Ultra 5 245K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X beats the Core Ultra 5 245K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 245K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core Ultra 5 245K that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 245K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 245K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X. Also, the Core Ultra 5 245K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 5 245K has more L2 cache than the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X. Despite this, the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 245K.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 3960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.